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SCANNED DOCUMENTATION FOR ACCESSIONED ELECTRONIC RECORDS

November 29,200l

Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Database, 1991-93

Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards Record Group 220

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been accepting electronic records into its holdings since the early 1970s. Documentation in paper format has accompanied each transfer of electronic records. This documentation is necessary to understand the meaning of the digitized bits of information within the electronic records.

Over the decades, NARA has had different procedures to compile documentation into an organized unit for researchers, and different expectations regarding the content and extent of any NARA-produced portions of the documentation. Consequently, the structure, organization and contents of the documentation reflect the procedures in place when the documentation was compiled and arranged. So one should expect differences in the structure, content, and organization of the following documentation from the documentation for other series of electronic records that is available on the NAM web site.

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The following documentation may include out of date addresses, telephone numbers, or other items of un-revised information related to the agency that created or transferred the documentation and electronic records to NARA, to the NARA unit that processed these materials, or to the physical media of the electronic records files. The readability and visual quality are also variable. In addition, for scanning purposes NARA staff have made a deliberate selection of pages from the technical and/or supplementary documentation available for this series or file(s). Consequently additional documentation relating to this series or file(s) may be available at NARA.

NARA ‘s web site is http://www.nara.gov